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CheatGPT

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This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another.  It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses. The quality of the code I was reading was amazing!  My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do: using modern syntax, using functional approaches instead of creating a lot of unnecessary state, composing deeply nested function calls, and employing interesting patterns for solving problems. I praised the code I was seeing on a number of assignments.  But then I started to notice how often I was writing these same comments.  Despite the fact that professors like to think that they are becoming better teachers over time, it's hard to imagine that I've improved this much since last term, or the term before that, or any of the dozens of times I've taught this same course. I don't think I've changed, nor has the subject.  It's also hard to imagine that these students are an order of magnitude better.  Yes, student cohorts can

This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another. It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses. The quality of the code I was reading was amazing! My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do: using modern syntax, using functional approaches instead of creating a lot of unnecessary state, composing deeply nested function calls, and employing interesting patterns for solving problems. I praised the code I was seeing on a number of assignments. But then I started to notice how often I was writing these same comments. Despite t

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